We hooked up our new basic b&w laser printer this week...very exciting! I don't think I'm ever going back to inkjet. I had an HP laser printer that served me well from 1993-2001 but I got rid of it when I got married...never will I be unfaithful to laser again. :)
Heard a sermon recently on calling. One good question was to ask yourself, "What seeds am I planting?" to think about what you might be harvesting. Along with my current roles as child of God, wife, family member (daughter, sister, etc.), I will certainly be gaining a new one as mom. But what else might God be calling me to right now? What kind of fruit might there be five, ten years down the road?
I'm used to there being two options when you read articles on-line, like from the NY Times: e-mail and print. I went to e-mail an article and noticed that there was share option that branched off, giving the options of: Digg, Facebook, Newsvine, Permalink. I have no idea what 3 out of 4 of those options are! I think I will always be on step behind technologically. When I was in CA I spilled water on my Palm. :( I tried to turn it on before it completely dried up. I think it's a goner. Fortunately, someone has an old one they're going to give me...really, I just use it as a space-saving calender/address book. Oh, and I do love to play Bejeweled when I have time to kill.
Not quite my interface, but you get the idea (swap jewels to make links of at least 3 in a row horizontally or vertically...bonus points for creating series by jewels "falling in to place":
I think I have broken my ebay addiction for now...although not my on-lne shopping one as E will attest to. I did get a new pair of purple crocs with a coupon from Piperlime though I returned the clearance shoes I thought looked cute. Fortunately they have free shipping and returns (like Zappo). I like their graphic look - even the box was lined with small green lime motifs.
Speaking of green things, have I mentioned how much I heart my eye shade...it does look like a bikini top though.
Need to finish packing...but a few more photos...
Celebrating our 3rd wedding anniversary (and keeping with the green theme!):
This past Sunday we threw a good-bye party for some friends from small group who are moving to Waco, Texas. William and I slogged through our PhD programs together (his was English) and Katherine was a fellow private school teacher (math) and loved to bake:
Our place was a zoo with more people showing up than expected and a sizeable number of kids.
We also got to hang out with Eshean, Rob and Maya on Saturday...Maya's baby brother is due to make his appearance in a couple of weeks(Kaden, Micah, Christian?). Maya showed off her alphabet drilling skills.
Read a really interesting review in the NY Times Sunday Book Review for The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier (yes, E went out and bought the book the next day).
An excerpt of the review:
"Collier’s is a better book than either Sachs’s or Easterly’s for two reasons. First, its analysis of the causes of poverty is more convincing. Second, its remedies are more plausible.
There are, he suggests, four traps into which really poor countries tend to fall. The first is civil war. Nearly three-quarters of the people in the bottom billion, Collier points out, have recently been through, or are still in the midst of, a civil war. Such wars usually drag on for years and have economically disastrous consequences. Congo (formerly Zaire, formerly the Belgian Congo) would need 50 years of peace at its present growth rate to get back to the income level it had in 1960. Unfortunately, there is a vicious circle, because the poorer a country becomes, the more likely it is to succumb to civil war (“halve the ... income of the country and you double the risk of civil war” is a characteristic Collier formulation). And once you’ve had one civil war, you’re likely to have more: “Half of all civil wars are postconflict relapses.”
Why, aside from their poverty, have so many sub-Saharan countries become mired in internal conflict? Collier has spent years trying to answer this question, and his conclusions are central to this book. Civil war, it turns out, has nothing much to do with the legacy of colonialism, or income inequality, or the political repression of minorities. Three things turn out to increase the risk of conflict: a relatively high proportion of young, uneducated men; an imbalance between ethnic groups, with one tending to outnumber the rest; and a supply of natural resources like diamonds or oil, which simultaneously encourages and helps to finance rebellion."
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